The good people at the Pew Forum released an interesting report late last week on journalism and the press. Some highlights: Religion played a much more significant role in the media coverage of President-elect Barack Obama than it did in the press treatment of Republican nominee John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign, but much…

Some suggestions come from Amy Sullivan at Time magazine, who has penned a letter to Obama: Dear Mr. President-elect, No doubt you have a lot of big decisions associated with your upcoming move to Washington. What school (public or private) should the girls go to? Who should be the new Secretary of State? Goldendoodle or…

A priest has taken the unusual step of telling his congregants that their political support may determine whether or not they can receive communion. From the AP: A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect…

The man who will be president had his first phone conversation with the man who is pope. And Vice President-elect Biden’s bishop has a few things to say, too, about the most famous Catholic in his diocese. From The Times of London: It has emerged that US President-elect Barack Obama held his first telephone conversation…

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